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I'm beginning to wonder if Humans are the virus and things like Covid 19 the antibodies.

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Bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.

Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant.

That's just what competing species do, though. Only issue is that we're so destructively good at it, alas

I wonder if there's been any examples of species being deliberately wiped out by any species other than man ?

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Bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.

Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant.

That's just what competing species do, though. Only issue is that we're so destructively good at it, alas

I wonder if there's been any examples of species being deliberately wiped out by any species other than man ?

Depends on your definition of 'deliberate', I guess. Are there any species (other than, you know, diseases and stuff) that man has deliberately wiped out, or has it just been wanton carelessness and complete lack of interest in consequences? Grey Squirrels will completely wipe out Red Squirrels and although there's no particular intent on their part the outcome is the same.

It turns out you can have too many wifi repeaters. I put 2 in the same room to sync them so its primed for my new office/converted garage and whilst most of my devices are ok the baby monitor has s*** itself.

It turns out you can have too many wifi repeaters. I put 2 in the same room to sync them so its primed for my new office/converted garage and whilst most of my devices are ok the baby monitor has s*** itself.

Ours just let us hear the baby. Amazing what they can do with technology nowadays.

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Comfy chairs, beer, and doom. Humanity's future is an early 90s LAN party.

So raise your fists and march aroundDont dare take what you needI'll jail and bury those committedAnd smother the rest in greedCrawl with me into tomorrowOr i'll drag you to your graveI'm deep inside your childrenThey'll betray you in my name

I go back and forth on this. I get regular pangs, but also am achieving a lot more in the house and yard etc . Sad to say, the one thing I think I will really struggle with would be a hiatus in the NFL.

I should be at a gig in Birmingham tonight and then getting cans in for the Euros kicking off next week, gonna be f***ing miserable summer having all these realisations that I should be going somewhere or doing something all while stuck in the house